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From Mobile Business magazine:
Dextra Airtime Solutions has signed an exclusive distribution deal to supply mobiles2go’s i-Kids device. The product, which has been well received following its launch a couple of months ago, is a phone that enables the child to make and receive voice calls to and from a parent-restricted range of numbers;
it also includes [...]

Intel and SiRF together:
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, BEIJING, April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIRF), a leading provider of GPS-enabled silicon and premium software location platforms, today revealed its industry leading SiRFstarIII(TM) architecture will provide the GPS-based location awareness for products based on the new Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007. The low-power [...]

Think Globally Act Locally

Click here for the OFFICIAL MOBILES2GO.COM SITE
In Australia and the rest of the world, we think that LBS (Location Based Services) and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) are all about delivering location targetted advertising. But there is so much more to LBS than that! So this is a fansite/blog of the Mobiles2Go products and services - providing [...]

I really like LBSZone with its reports and news and stuff - I’ve linked to it before, and no doubt will again! They are highlighting a report at the moment on THE STRUCTURE OF THE EUROPEAN LBS MARKET 2005.

What are the latest developments on the European LBS market? This forecast shows that LBS could contribute [...]

Directions Magazine LBS article

Directions Magazine has an article by Scott Hotes outline LBS positives for Enterprise:
Location-based services (LBS) have resurged remarkably over this last year throughout the North American market. For over three years, location pioneers Bell Mobility and Nextel were alone in offering high precision (read GPS-based) services to their data customers. Then, last May, the [...]

Where For Art Thou, Wherify?

Hong Kong actually. Wherify press release earlier in the month announced:
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (February 21, 2006) – Wherify Wireless, Inc. (OTCBB:WFYW), a leading developer of wireless location products and services, today announced the Company has completed its Global Location Service Center in Hong Kong to support Wherify-enabled service offerings in the Asian region.
From the ABOUT [...]

Buying up LBS chip companies

In this week’s Computerworld (written by John Ribeiro),
SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. plans to release a software platform for phone operators later this year that it hopes will accelerate the use of location-based services in mobile phones, the company’s president and CEO said.
SiRF sells chips and software for use in consumer Global Positioning System (GPS) products. [...]

Mobiles2Go iKids phone

The Sydney Morning Herald (on their Saturday morning edition front page) had this article regarding one of the most successful LBS implementations in Australia to date:
People tracking is no longer just the stuff of covert military operations or spy movies. Putting mobile phones and GPS together is an ideal technological marriage, says an expert in [...]

LBS Conferences

The Location Intelligence Conference, April 3-5 ‘06 in San Francisco:
Since we first launched this conference two years ago, we are seeing an explosion in the interest for location technology. From mapping portals, to web services, to the integration of geospatial software solutions with business intelligence and enterprise databases, the demand for better tools to help [...]

Tampa in April

The GITA Annual conference is coming up in April 23-26.
About GITA: The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) is a nonprofit educational association serving the global geospatial community.
In the past, GITA has sponsored LBS Conferences - this one is followed by SmallWorld TenSails Symposium on April 27.
Also following the GITA shindig (on April 27) is [...]